FCC Will Get Passing Votes for Net Neutrality
WashPost
The Federal Communications Commission's proposal of new rules to prevent companies such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deliberately blocking or slowing certain Web traffic is expected to receive a passing three votes out of the five-member agency, according to sources.
The proposal, to be announced Monday by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, will include an additional guideline for carriers that they make public the way they manage traffic on their network, according to sources at the agency. The additional guideline would be a "sixth principle" to four existing guidelines adopted in 2005 on Internet network operations. A fifth principle is expected to be announced by Genachowski on Monday during a speech at the Brookings Institute that would prohibit the discrimination of applications and services on telecommunications, cable and wireless Internet networks.
Genachowski is expected to receive support from Democratic commissioner Michael Copps, who has publicly supported the idea of an additional rule that prevents Internet traffic discrimination, according to sources at the agency. He has also talked publicly about the need for transparency from carriers on how they run their networks to ensure that they aren't singling out technologies that might compete with their own services.
The question was whether new commissioner Mignon Clyburn, a Democrat, would also agree to the proposed rules. Clyburn was nominated to the commission by President Obama after serving on the South Carolina Public Service Commission. Clyburn is also the daughter of South Carolina House Democrat Jim Clyburn.
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The Federal Communications Commission's proposal of new rules to prevent companies such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deliberately blocking or slowing certain Web traffic is expected to receive a passing three votes out of the five-member agency, according to sources.
The proposal, to be announced Monday by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, will include an additional guideline for carriers that they make public the way they manage traffic on their network, according to sources at the agency. The additional guideline would be a "sixth principle" to four existing guidelines adopted in 2005 on Internet network operations. A fifth principle is expected to be announced by Genachowski on Monday during a speech at the Brookings Institute that would prohibit the discrimination of applications and services on telecommunications, cable and wireless Internet networks.
Genachowski is expected to receive support from Democratic commissioner Michael Copps, who has publicly supported the idea of an additional rule that prevents Internet traffic discrimination, according to sources at the agency. He has also talked publicly about the need for transparency from carriers on how they run their networks to ensure that they aren't singling out technologies that might compete with their own services.
The question was whether new commissioner Mignon Clyburn, a Democrat, would also agree to the proposed rules. Clyburn was nominated to the commission by President Obama after serving on the South Carolina Public Service Commission. Clyburn is also the daughter of South Carolina House Democrat Jim Clyburn.
(More here.)
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2 Comments:
say goodbye to an unregulated internet.
As I've been reading various comments, I agree with some of them where they state they have some mixed feelings about this idea being both good and maybe not so good. As long as it does not interrupt too much of the ISPs. Of course, we may not know that until the basic "trial and error" take place.
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